To John Lubbock 23 September [1856]
Summary
Sends review by Quatrefages [de Bréau] of Owen’s Parthenogenesis [1849].
J. D. Dana’s congratulations on JL’s marriage.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 23 Sept [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 283: 12 (EH 88206461) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1960 |
To John Lubbock 27 October [1856]
Summary
Comments on JL’s paper on Daphnia, ["An account of methods of reproduction in Daphnia and of the structure of the ephippium", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 147 (1857): 79–100].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 27 Oct [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 14 (EH 88206463) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1979 |
To John Lubbock [1 November 1856]
Summary
Discusses arthropod structure and the nature of the corium.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [1 Nov 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 5 (EH 88206454) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1980 |
To John Lubbock [March? 1856]
Summary
JL is studying Cynipidae. CD sends galls for his examination.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [Mar? 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 10 (EH 88206459) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2028 |
To John Lubbock 14 [July 1857]
Summary
Thanks JL for saving him from "a disgraceful blunder". Following their conversation he has divided the New Zealand flora as JL suggested and finds genera with four or more species are more variable than those with three or less. It will take several weeks to go back over all his material.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 14 [July 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 18 (EH88206467) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2123 |
To John Lubbock [22 November 1857]
Summary
Huxley and William Sharpey praise JL’s paper [? on Daphnia, Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 147 (1857): 79–100] at Philosophical Club.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [22 Nov 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 22 (EH 88206471) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2149 |
To John Lubbock [November 1858]
Summary
Praise for abstract of JL’s paper on insects ["On the ova and pseudova of insects", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 9 (1857–9): 574–83].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [Nov 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 25 (EH 88206474) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2331 |
To John Lubbock [August–September 1858]
Summary
Variations in the structure of Pelargonium flowers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [Aug–Sept 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 24 (EH 88206473) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2390 |
To John Lubbock [6 March 1857]
Summary
Voting to elect JL [a member of Athenaeum].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [6 Mar 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2392 |
To John Lubbock 12 [August 1857]
Summary
Invites JL to dine and meet J. S. Henslow.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 12 [Aug 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 19 (EH 88206468) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2396 |
To John Lubbock 30 [March? 1858]
Summary
Comments and criticisms on JL’s paper [possibly: "On the development of Chloëon dimidiatum", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 24 (1863): 61–78].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 30 [Mar? 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 23 (EH 88206472) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2397 |
To John Lubbock [6 February 1859]
Summary
JL’s brother’s accident.
Thinks JL should tackle systematics of anomalous insects from studies of internal organs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [6 Feb 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 26 (EH 88206475) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2408 |
To John Lubbock 9 February [1859]
Summary
CD sees JL’s cases of same organs varying greatly in allied forms as a serious difficulty in regard to his own ideas.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 9 Feb [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 27 (EH 88206476) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2411 |
To John Lubbock 21 [March 1859]
Summary
Development of aphids; apparent absence of vermiform stage.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 21 [Mar 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 30 (EH 88206479) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2419 |
To John Lubbock 8 March [1859]
Summary
Wants examples of insects (especially Diptera) in which embryo resembles adult, to show that the metamorphic stages may be lost.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 8 Mar [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 29 (EH 88206478) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2426 |
To John Lubbock 16 [March 1859]
Summary
Wants JL’s opinion on paper by L. J. M. Dufour ["Études anatomiques sur les insectes diptères de la famille des pupipares", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 19 (1844): 1345–55].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 16 [Mar 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 28 (EH 88206477) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2434 |
To John Lubbock 11 August [1857]
Summary
Asks JL not to call as he has a "very old friend" [J. S. Henslow] coming to visit him.
Yesterday visited poultry show at Crystal Palace.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 11 Aug [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 21 (EH 88206470) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2481 |
To John Lubbock [19 November 1859]
Summary
Has told John Murray to send copy of the Origin. There are "many valid and weighty arguments against my notions".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [19 Nov 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 16 (EH 88206465) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2527 |
To John Lubbock [22 November 1859]
Summary
CD’s former admiration for Paley’s Natural theology [1802].
Cares not for reviews [of Origin] but for opinions of men like Lubbock, Huxley, Hooker, Lyell.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [22 Nov 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 17 (EH 88206466) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2532 |
To John Lubbock 14 December [1859]
Summary
Is preparing a reprint of Origin. Asks JL’s opinion on the book’s merits; values his judgment.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 14 Dec [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 15 (EH 88206464) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2584 |
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